Top 1200 Past Is Over Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!

The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head.

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

The reality is that who you are is who you are right this second, not who you were at any moment in the past because it doesn't exist anymore. It's done. It's over.

Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.

A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to get over it and past it.

Humans have continued to evolve quite a lot over the past ten thousand years, and certainly over 100 thousand. Sure, our biology affects our behavior. But it's unlikely that humans' early evolution is deeply relevant to contemporary psychological questions about dating or the willpower to complete a dissertation.

I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what? Over the "system", over the various bureaucracies not watching me, over my colleagues' indifference, over my patron's ignorance, over the very concept of horn-blowing pride.

The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when we who live in the present touch them, they are suddenly stretched taut and then they propel us into the future.

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Removing religion from the womb of culture has become the practiced virtue of the ACLU over the past several decades.

Your past is always useful to you: If you are happy with your past, you get power from it; if you are unhappy with your past, you take lesson from it!

This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do present practitioners have to go back to an original work of the past? Or has it been incorporated? ... Science is cumulative, and embodies its past.

Organismic awareness is awareness of the Present only - you can't taste the past, smell the past, see the past, touch the past, or hear the past. Neither can you taste, smell, see, touch or hear the future. In other words, organismic consciousness is properly timeless, and being timeless, it is essentially spaceless.

It was all very childish. Why on earth should Edward have to leave for Jacob to come over? Weren't we past this immaturity?

If something is buried in the past, leave it buried. . . . Such dwelling on past lives, including past mistakes, is just not right! It is not the gospel of Jesus Christ. . . . In cases of marriage and family, . . . we can end up destroying so many others.

Almost the first thing Obama did in the White House was to return the bust of Winston Churchill to the British embassy. That suggests a major re-ordering of things. It'll be fascinating to see what happens from now on. It was a genuine break with the recent past - perhaps to re-connect with the past past.

There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.

Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future.

You've got all these characters and yet, you're hovering over one character like a fly over a stinky diaper. Realize that you've got a kickass superpower: you can possess and take-over anybody inside the story. With the power of Point-of-View, you can drag us along for the ride. You can shove us into their eyes, their minds, you can force us to piggyback on their experiences past and present. Sometimes untangling a knotted-up tale means looking at it from different eyes: what better eyes than those of the other characters inside the story?

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past.

I've been able to make films over the past 10 years but still maintain my anonymity.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

I don't think you can ask anybody in any walk of life to do anything at a championship level without doing it over and over and over and over and over again in preparation.

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.

I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. I wanted to run away from who we had been seen to be, who we had been... It's the first thing I think of when trouble comes - the geographic solution. Change your name, leave town, disappear, make yourself over. What hides behind that impulse is the conviction that the life you have lived, the person you are, is valueless, better off abandoned, that running away is easier than trying to change things, that change itself is not possible.

Welfare is the basic cause of the deleterious cultural changes we have witnessed in the West over the past 60 years.

One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis.

Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.

Independence has been key to the success and sustained growth of electronic music over the past 25 years.

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear.... When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.

Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.

Over the past few days I have been fighting off a virus that has affected the majority of my band and crew.

Over the past decade, I've been lucky to have witnessed and played a part in Manchester City's rise as a club and a brand.

Now think deeply. What have you done with your life over the past year? How do you feel inside?

The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching back and back into ages that can but be surmised, is half-mystical in basis. The intoxication, at once so heady and so devout, is not the romantic melancholy engendered by broken towers and mouldered stones; it is the soaring of the imagination into the high empyrean where huge episodes are tangled with myths and dreams; it is the stunning impact of world history on its amazed heirs.

Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.

A career is measured over the course of the years, not moments. Over good decisions, over successes, not moments, failures, missteps, or bad comments. I learned that I needed to take a step back and look at my career not in that one moment that made me feel really bad, but what I had done not even in the past one or two years or last one or two hires, but that that career is built over many, many, many, many successive quarters and years and good decisions - never, ever made in that one moment where you felt really bad.

Don't beat yourself up over what you could have or should have done. The past is gone. Move on to the future.

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.

I'm just honest about the things I believe in. For instance, I went to a past-life regressionist, and he told me that in my past life I was assassinated. I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets. We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past. But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

There have been ups and downs over the years, but that's in the past, and now I'm just looking forward and focussed on the future ahead.

I do like to drive fast and I have gotten pulled over in the past. I use my skills to get out of tickets.

...over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.

Because I'm my parents' daughter, and get attention from things I've done in the past, that probably goes over people's heads.

The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.

The greatest advancements in living standards over the past century have been coincident with affordable energy.

The past is past. There is no point in repeating what you did in the past.

When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.

This generation lacks true knowledge of how the past has trapped you with psychological lassos over Adam's apples.

I can literally count on one hand how many slave stories have gotten notoriety over the past few years.